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Comment author: XiXiDu 19 August 2010 02:33:49PM 6 points [-]

Dawkins agrees with EY

Richard Dawkins states that he is frightened by the prospect of superhuman AI and even mentions recursion and intelligence explosion.

Comment author: JGWeissman 20 August 2010 06:18:40AM 13 points [-]

I was disappointed watching the video relative to the expectations I had from your description.

Dawkins talked about recursion as in a function calling itself, as an example of the sort of the thing that may be the final innovation that makes AI work, not an intelligence explosion as a result of recursive self-improvement.